I'm always working on our Halloween display. This year I decided I needed jellyfish! I love spooky stuff but the creepy, gory, sicko type stuff just doesn't light my fire. However, glowing awesome jellyfish sounded way too cool to pass up! I got this idea several months ago and ordered what I needed in September. … Continue reading Glowing Jellyfish: Outdoor Halloween
Happy September from me and one of my cats: Mimi. I got a particularly good photo of her eyes, so I'm sharing. Mimi is an adult rescue cat. She's our second full time house cat and she came from a 90 year old lady's house. Our house is very different from where she came from. … Continue reading MIMI
Feel like today is 101°F. I'm currently hiding out in the air conditioning. However, I was out there about an hour ago moving stuff so the mowing crew can weedeat the gravel area. Right now it looks like the Serengeti. Grass as tall as my torso. The grass got out from under me this year. … Continue reading Fall Garden Happenings
This is a G.E.M. avocado. It's supposed to be hardy to zone 9. Thanks to the warming temperatures over the last ten years we have been moved from 8b to 9a. As most people know: we are still in the tail end of an ice age and when you are coming out of an ice … Continue reading Avocado, Texas Style
I looked around online for ways to give my son some privacy in his new dorm room. We signed up for a two person room and started with a three person assignment. My son met a kid on our tour and they both wanted two person so now they're going to be roommates. They still … Continue reading Dorm Room Privacy
You may or may not remember when I warned about suckers coming off below the graft area on fruit trees. But: I said to watch for them and don't let them get out of hand... These are peach suckers, from the graft zone and they are clearly out of hand! I cut them as close … Continue reading Trouble In (Summer) Paradise
Ever heard of a Dutch Baby? Well, my goodness, I hope you have! These are sort of pancakes, but much poofier and you make them in the oven. I used to eat them every Sunday after church. I went with my parents when we all lived in Colorado. We used to get them at the … Continue reading Buttered Dutch Babies
After a few years of making yogurt I have fiddled around and changed my base recipe. I still make a Greek yogurt type product using ultra pasteurized half and half and I'm still using the same inulin, but I've changed the probiotics. The first year I made yogurt I made three different probiotic strains and … Continue reading Max Probiotic Yogurt
So. Yes. I am having a new experience in my garden. As my grandmothers were, I'm also: usually always home. I visit my family, but mostly around Christmas time when my garden is asleep. This year I'm finding out what happens when you aren't home to stop disasters! There were bees and hornets all over … Continue reading Crazy Happenings In The Garden
Man I tell you what. Don't enter into a contract with a crazy person. We had to redo our Eagle Scout project. So, basically we built it twice. The woman we were working with has had some health problems, so: I'm choosing to blame that on her awful behavior. But she was sending pages of … Continue reading Finished!
The rugged beauty of the mountains. Always takes my breath away! Mud pies anyone? Perfect for grandkids! Meet you outside to marvel at nature's beauty! Crazy Green Thumbs
My mom has a giant perennial delphinium. It's just gorgeous! Today I thought I'd feature some of the wild plants in the Colorado mountains and some flowers my mom bought for her window boxes. There's so many beautiful things out here, you have to pick a subject matter! Seed pods. We always called these butter … Continue reading Beautiful Colorado
Feeding frenzy at the hummingbird feeder! I'm at my mom's, in Colorado. I just left AZ where I visited friends, who are like family, for about 5 days. I'm really enjoying myself. I always feel a deep connection with the land around my mom's home. I took some great pictures the other day. I hope … Continue reading Mountain Summer
One of my family's favorite summer foods are often called either "quick" or "refrigerator" pickles. These make the crunchiest pickles because they aren't cooked. I grow Armenian cucumbers, which are actually melons. They taste like cucumbers and they don't get bitter in our high heat like actual cucumbers do. So, I always have fresh additions … Continue reading Quick/Refrigerator Pickles
This is why this fruiting plant loves the desert. Rain gives it "heart rot". I will eventually cut these open and half of what I have will be black with mold from the rain. It's ruined the skin of the fruit. Although, I can usually cut a lot of the rot out and still use … Continue reading Wet Pomegranates
Here's a babaco papaya. I'm keeping it on my covered porch. It doesn't like my sun and usual super hot summers. It's a mountain growing plant where it's from. All the rain and cooler temperatures have kept it happy on the porch. I brought the strawberry bags under the porch as well. I soak them … Continue reading What Is In My July Garden
Lots of fun at the bird sanctuary today. I found things I've never seen before. I thought someone had put Christmas lights on a bush! It's actually in the cucurbit family and is a wild vine down here. In all my years in Texas I've never seen this vine before! It's a Ibervillea lindheimeri. A … Continue reading Pretty Cool Grasshopper!
My glads are still pumping out flowers. This has definitely been a weird year. Lots of rain and no 100+°F weeks of misery. I'll take it! Meet you out in the garden to be astonished by the blooms! Crazy Green Thumbs
Today is my twelve year anniversary for my blog: Crazy Green Thumbs. This has been so fun! Thank you to all of you who read, comment and shape this blog! I'm also having a great day for views. If you'd like to see my advice for blogging, click here: Writing A Successful Blog Meet you … Continue reading Yayyyy!
Both my kids are in scouts. There's a lot of scout bashing going on these days and I'm here to say: scouting has not changed much since my brother got eagle in the 90's. You will never regret the self reliance, the abilities your scout gains and the confidence your young man acquires as a … Continue reading Eagle Project
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